The conference takes place in Gunnar Sævigs Sal at the Grieg Academy and combines a series of presentation sessions, as well as several selected concerts, both at The Grieg Academy and Johanneskirken (scroll down). Both the conference and the concerts are free to attend.
The conference is centered around the theme of “Dimensions”. Presenters will look at dimensional concepts, thinking and working methods in artistic, philosophical and scientific disciplines. Questions about the nature of cognition, the borders of consciousness and artistic agency will certainly come to the forefront during this first seminar, which will combine artistic results, conference presentations and round-table discussions.
PROGRAM 23 February 18:00 - 22:00
Opening of Symposium:
Studio A, Grieg Acadmey, University of Bergen
Örjan Sandred: Sonic Trails
Electroacoustic Installation (Norwegian Premiere)
PROGRAM 24 February 10:30 – 17:30
SESSION 1: Composition with AI (10:30-11:00)
Moderator: Dániel Péter Biró, Grieg Academy, UiB
10:30: Prof. Örjan Sandred, Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba. “Controlling Musical Behavior Using Constraint Solvers”
11:00: Juan Vassallo, PhD Candidate, Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
“Versificator: A Co-Creative Algorithmic Agency for Contemporary Music”
Coffee break (11:30-11:45)
SESSION 2: “Compositional Ontology and Sonic Awareness” (11:45-12:45)
Moderator: Prof. Örjan Sandred, Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba
11:45: Tijs Ham, PhD Candidate, Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
“Vivid Forgetfulness”
12:15 Sergej Tchirkov, PhD Candidate, Grieg Academy, University of Bergen “The Listening Hand: from Sound to Klang”
Lunch from 12:45 to 13:45
SESSION 3: Art and the Expanded Consciousness (13:45-16:45)
Moderator: Juan Vassallo, PhD Candidate, Grieg Academy, UiB
13:45: Assoc. Prof. Simon Gilbertson, Grieg Academy, UiB
“Severe Traumatic Social Brain Injury and Music Therapy”
14:15: Round Table Discussion with Asoc. Prof. Simon Gilbertson, Grieg Academy, UiB and Prof. Karsten Specht, Professor, Deputy Dean Department of Biological and Medical Psychology Faculty of Psychology, UiB
14:45: Workshop with Klangforum Heidelberg workshopping compositions by Julia Constance Wiger-Nordås, Erik Håkon Halvorsen and Juan Vassallo
Coffee break (16:45-17:00)
Concert: EDGELANDS
17:00: Prof. Trond Lossius, The Norwegian Film School, The Grieg Academy Edgelands (Studio A)
Moderator, Tijs Ham, PhD Candidate, Grieg Academy, UiB
18:00: Dinner
19:00 Concert at Gunnar Sævogs Sal (GSS): Sergej Tchirkov, Accordion,
Works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Francisco Corthey, Tijs Ham and Pierluigi Billone with readings by Renee Gladman
PROGRAM 25 February 10:00 – 17:30
SESSION 4: Spinoza’s Intuition (10:00-12:30)
Moderator: Asoc. Prof. Simon Gilbertson, Grieg Academy, UiB
10:00: Prof. Alexander van der Haven, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, UiB
“The 1702 arrest of the Danish religious visionary Oliger Paulli in the context of his politico-religious milieu of Socinians and Spinozists in Amsterdam.”
10:30: Prof. Dániel Péter Biró, Grieg Academy, University of Bergen “Immigration and Return in the Ethica Composition Cycle after Baruch Spinoza”
11:00: Prof. Gunnar Hindrichs, Philosophisches Seminar, University of Basel “Spinoza Between Philosophical Therapy and Construction”
11:30: Round Table discussion: “Spinoza and the Dimensions of Thought”
Discussion with Prof. Dániel Péter Biró, Grieg Academy, UiB, Prof. Alexander van der Haven, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, UiB, Prof. Gunnar Hindrichs, Philosophisches Seminar, University of Basel, Asoc. Prof. Vibeke Andrea Tellmann, Department of Philosophy, Dr. Grit Schwarzkopf, University of Heidelberg
Lunch from 12 to 13
Afternoon Session: Room 206, Grieg Academy (from 13:00 to 17:30)
13:00: «Dimensions of Sound Art» Round Table discussion with Prof. Trond Lossius, The Norwegian Film School, The Grieg Academy and Prof. Örjan Sandred, University of Manitoba
Moderator: Karen Werner, PhD Candidate, Department of Art, UiB
Coffee break (13:45-14:00)
SESSION 5: On Musical Movement and Artistic Secrets (14:00-17:30)
Moderator: Sergej Tchirkov, PhD Candidate, Grieg Academy, UiB
14:00: Maria Mjaaland Sele, PhD, University of Southhampton
“Music; a Moving Concept”
14:30: Discussion: “Hanslick and Musical Autonomy.” Round table with Prof. Gunnar Hindrichs, Philosophisches Seminar, University of Basel, Maria Mjaaland Sele, PhD, University of Southhampton, Prof. Dániel Péter Biró, Grieg Academy, UiB, Prof. Arnulf Mattes, Grieg Academy, UiB.
15:00: Assoc. Prof. Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Cornell University, Department of Music and Prof. Sophia Efstathiou, Senior Researcher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
“Sounding Secrets” (Via Zoom).
15:30: Conference wrap up
15:45: Snacks and conctails
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Concert : Johanneskirke
Dániel Péter Biró:
Ethica, composition cycle based on texts by Baruch Spinoza
Schola Heidelberg and Ensemble Aisthesis
Walter Nußbaum, Conductor
About the project Sounding Philosophy
The project Sounding Philosophy, funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (2021-2024), integrates the fields of music composition, philosophy and science to understand how theories of reason and the mind can be approached from creative, metaphysical and scientific perspectives.
This project builds on research-creation initiated by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017-2018, presentations at the annual interdisciplinary conference of the Swiss Philosophical Society in September 2018 and discussions undertaken in the context of the Grieg Academy Composition Research Group in 2018-2021.